Airline News and Commentary

Did Southwest Discriminate Against 2 Passengers Who Were Too Pretty? (Uh, Probably Not)

Two University of South Florida students claim they were discriminated against on a Southwest flight from Tampa to LA because they were too attractive. First, they say that a flight attendant wouldn’t give them a bottle of water. Then they swore at another passenger who took too long in the bathroom. (No, I understand why that’s discrimination either). Then when they left the plane in LA, they were escorted off by armed officers and interviewed by the FBI.

Said the two passengers (in the quote of the year): “I think they were just discriminating against because we were young decent-looking girls. I mean, nobody else on the plane looked like us except us,” she said. “[The flight attendants] were like older ladies. We were younger. Who knows, they could have been just jealous of us because we were younger.”